Experts of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT" and the publishing house "Za Rulem" decided to find out in a joint online poll what types of fuel Russian motorists use. The survey was conducted from August 29th to September 9th, 2018. More than 16 thousand respondents took part in it.

Ford Mondeo sedan has received a technological upgrade aimed at the safety improving of the car and improving of the intelligent driver assistance systems. People can order updated Ford Mondeo at all official Ford dealers in Russia.

In the TOP-100 of the most popular models in the European market, according to the results of sales for the first 9 months of 2018, two Russian models were included again – LADA Vesta and LADA Granta, the first one improved its position significantly.

The automotive market of Russia, which continued to demonstrate the double-digit growth in August, rose to the third place of the rating of the largest car markets in Europe by the results of last month.

The global car market in July grew by 1.9% up to 7 million 500 thousand passenger cars and light commercial vehicles. The annual sales level, cleared from seasonality, calculated in accordance with the results of the previous month, was 96 million 85 thousand cars.

According to the estimation of the analytic agency "AUTOSTAT", during the first 6 months of 2018, 213.3 thousand new passenger cars of European brands were sold in Russia, which is more by 15.3% than in January-June of 2017.

After the slight decrease in June, the Russian LCV market remains on the sixth place in the European rating. According to the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA), the sales of light commercial vehicles in Europe grew by 8.4% up to 216,299 vehicles in June.

Liftback Skoda Octavia, produced at the GAZ Group automotive plant in Nizhny Novgorod, is delivered to the markets of European countries. Until the end of the year Volkswagen Group Rus plans to export 10 thousand cars of this model.

From January to June of 2018, 2,770 new LADA cars were sold in the European Union, which is more by 10.7% than in the first six months of 2017. This conclusion was reached by the experts of the agency "AUTOSTAT" by the results of processing the data of the ACEA.

The car market of Russia, which showed the largest growth in June among the leading car markets in Europe, remained in the fifth place in the European championship. According to the data received by the agency "AUTOSTAT" in the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers, Germany became the leader by sales of cars in the last month, where there were sold 341,308 cars (+ 4.2%).

Since the beginning of 2018, JSC GLONASS has begun to pair the Russian emergency assistance system for car owners with foreign counterparts (in Europe it is eCall). It is about creating a single mechanism, through which Russian cars on the territory of the EU and European cars in Russia will be able to send calls to local emergency response agencies.

The Russian LCV market, which showed the largest growth among the leading European countries in May, nevertheless, remained in the sixth place in the European championship. According to the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA), sales of light commercial vehicles in Europe in May grew by 4% up to 182,681 units.

The automotive market of Russia, which showed the largest growth among the leading car market in Europe in May, nevertheless remained on the fifth place in the European championship. According to the data received by the agency "AUTOSTAT" in the national associations of European automakers, Germany was the on the first place by sales of cars in the last month, where it was sold 305,057 cars (-5.8%).